Desognaphosa tribulation, new species Figures 199, 200; Map 18
TYPE: Female holotype taken in a Berlese sample of sieved litter from a rainforest at an elevation of 400 m at a site 2.7 km W of Cape Tribulation, 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 27 ̍ E, Queensland (Jan. 1983; G. Monteith), deposited in QMB (S26683).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females can easily be recognized by the anteriorly advanced transverse vulval bar (fig. 200).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE: Total length 3.5. Coloration as in D. bulburin. Leg spination: femur III d00 0; tibiae: III v002; IV v1p02, r011; metatarsi: III v000; IV v1p02. Epigynum with wide anterior margin at wide end of depressed, triangular atrium (fig. 199); transverse bar situated in anterior half of epigynum (fig. 200).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Queensland: 2.5 km W Cape Tribulation, 16 ° 05 ̍ S, 145 ° 27 ̍ E, Oct. 2, 1982, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 180 m (G. Monteith, QMB S 26646), 1♀, Jan. 2, 1983, same (G. Monteith, QMB S26692), 2♀; Noah Creek, Cape Tribulation, 16 ° 08 ̍ S, 145 ° 26 ̍ E, Oct. 16, 1980, Berlese, sieved rainforest litter, elev. 5 m (G. Monteith, QMB S26643), 2♀.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the Cape Tribulation area of northeastern Queensland (map 18).